it’s always the same.
Months ago I looked around me at what was going on in the economy and stock market and it literally gave me tightness in my chest. It was hard for me to concentrate on work, or much of anything. Things that I had read about and worried about were coming to life and the pace […]
the reporting business.
Time magazine writes an article this week on “How to Save Your Newspaper.” Their conclusion? Micropayments. Basically, allow people to pay a small fee, like 5-25 cents for every article they read. The dominant platform for this doesn’t really exist since Paypal charges fees too large to make this viable. I used to think that […]
the rebirth of the long.
Up on the Tom Peters site there’s a good note on the “Generation Gap.” The idea is that his generation was handed a functioning business world with solid fundamentals, and that they took it created a world of stilts, which the current generation has now been bequeathed. Today those stilts are being knocked down and […]
detroit, empathy, and stories.
Detroit. Mitch Albom is a terrific writer. Think Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You’ll Meet in Heaven. Albom has a great way to make characters real, settings come to life, and emotions feel at home within you. He’s a storyteller in the truest sense. Today, I read his latest in Sports Illustrated called […]
america and her car companies.
This was a sloppy, not-as-coherent-as-should-be post, and so I’ve rewritten it. We have a lot to be pissed off about. Literally trillions of dollars of (in theory) taxpayer money are being given to corporations to “bail them out.” This after years of lush profits, exorbitant bonuses, and executives living like it was the gilded age. […]
romney on autos.
Romney has a good op-ed that cuts right to it. Here’s another great one. While that’s sad, it at least gives you hope for the future. This just freaks me out. Sigh, this and everything else seems to be going wrong in the country/world. I’d ask for it to end, but these days when I […]
world on the edge.
The Economist (apparently Palin’s favorite magazine) has a good, short article on the credit crisis. This is why those politicians who set the interests of Main Street against those of Wall Street are so wrong. Sooner or later the money markets affect every business. Companies face higher interest charges and the fear that they may […]
lipstick on a pig?
It’s classic. We’re going through one of the worst economic crises that our nation has seen in decades, and the media is talking about lipstick on a pig comments and other total crap. If there’s lipstick on a pig, it’s the lipstick the Fed is trying to put on the pig that is Wall Street. […]
oil: are we screwed either way?
On Kedrosky’s blog todayhe posts that we’re screwed either way oil prices go. 1) oil goes up and our economy is in trouble (eats up all consumers’ disposable income, inflation, etc) 2) oil goes down and alternative energy funded bets don’t make sense. I think this is crap. Paul’s right from a historical perspective: after […]
do you realize what just happened?
dear children, I think we’re sorry for what we’ve done to you. I say “think” because I don’t believe that most Americans have any idea what’s going on right now. We’re sorry that we’re sandbagging you with massive amounts of debt that will likely reduce your standard of living. Someone called it “indentured slavery”. They […]